Good morning fellow Glibs, hope you have your coffee or stimulant of choice as we dive into a new week.
If your birthday is today, you share it with General George McClellan, reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne, actress Julianne Moore, everyone’s favorite vegetable Terri Schiavo, and actress Amanda Seyfried.
Paris continues to burn due to a massive tax revolt, didn’t think you frogs had it in you, vive la France!
Investigation starts of unexpected suicide of Vice Admiral Scott Stearney.
Senior ISIS leader killed in drone strike in Syria.
Why do I have a feeling it’s all finally coming to an end?
Probably because all of this shit is going on.
And this shit too.
Crazy eyes hellbent on destroying Democrats 2020 chances.
That’s all I got for today, my head is spinning from all the news, hope your stimulates are stronger than mine. This might help.
Morning all! After a 2am trip to the ER (false alarm, thankfully), I’m already ready for this week to be over.
You, the spouse, or the kinder?
For you? For your SO? Kiddo?
False alarm for who?
Kiddo sounded like she had congestion in her lungs and was having a hard time breathing. Wife was worried about RSV or pneumonia. 2 hours and a nebulizer full of bronchodilator later, and she was melting down but physically fine (minus whatever bug she has).
That must have been a relief.
Glad it was minor. I don’t miss those trips.
RSV sucks. Two winters ago the whole family had it.
My youngest got rsv when she was 3 weeks old. We gave her antibiotics and albuterol at home and had to keep an eye on her 24/7 for a few weeks. Luckily nothing came of it, but damn that was scary. I’m glad yours is okay. RSV in the rally little ones can turn into life threatening pneumonia very rapidly.
Glad it was a false alarm. Nothing scarier than a sick baby.
Probably because all of this shit is going on.
And this shit too.
Sounds like there’s about to be a lot of suicides and botched robberies.
The ol’ back of the head double-tap suicides.
“Including an incident, where one man brutally cut off his own head while shaving”
+1 Blackadder Party
“Hello, Colin”
We joke about this shit, but it incredulous to me that one of the most corrupt and down right psychopathic crime syndicate bosses ever to have existed, almost had the US presidency stolen for her. This country dodged a bullet, I tell ya, but these crooks just refuse to go away. It’s not a coincidence that these types enter politics while being low earners only to end up billionaires after their stints in office have enriched a lot of people they rigged the game to help win. Not to mention the amount of people that get the short end of the stick or thrown under the bus as they ruthlessly sell away interests for personal gain.
…and if Ross Perot hadn’t run in 1992, no Bill Clinton, which means no Hillary Clinton, which means no Trump.
I doubt it. If HW hadn’t broken the most memorable campaign promise ever (Read My Lips…), and hadn’t been a RINO in every way, there would have been no Perot or Clinton.
I don’t think Not Adahn is saying he thinks GHW was a great president, but was making the point that without Clinton being president and then using that platform to straddle us with the harpy he married, we would have avoided the shitshow we get whenever she is involved and likely not have had the conditions that led to Trump being elected.
I’m saying HW was a dead duck whether or not Perot ran. That level of backstabbing just wasn’t ever going to get him another term.
She is an attention whore who married a man to get somewhere on his charismatic coattails and never not ruined a thing she touched.
Maybe. But don’t forget that he had “won” Gulf War I, which being our first major “victory” post-Vietnam was a BFD. GHWB was behind WJC by like <10% in the popular vote, and Perot has nearly 20% IIRC.
In any case, Hillary's career required Bill's coattails to get her NY Senate seat, and Trump required an absolutely ass-horrible opponent to win.
What Mojeaux said…
Bill Clinton, for all his faults, was a piker compared to that evil harpy he married (probably out of political expediency and convenience, and I am sure she hates him just as much as she hates everyone else). But yeah. We are where we are today because of her and the way she corrupted the system.
Trump had better start directly addressing all this shit. Maybe like this. If he let’s Mueller harass him for another 2 years while covering up his own and Clinton’s misdeeds, Trump will be a one-term President.
Paris continues to burn due to a massive tax revolt, didn’t think you frogs had it in you, vive la France! – it is not against taxes in general methinks
I was under the impression that the City-burning Riot was the French National Passtime.
Usually, it’s the banlieus that are burning.
The taxes are just on the wrong animals. We need the right pigs in charge.
Heh, I wonder if the people now pissed that the taxation is destroying their ability to use their own private conveyance to move around get the connection between their demands for free shit and government saying evil fossil fuel users need to be raped to save Gaia and pay for free shit.
No it isnt against taxes in general. They are throwing a tantrum because ‘give me your stuff, you have more than I do!’.
The more I see of it the less I care.
Yeah, if they were revolting against politicians raising taxes — then why are they burning the cars of non-politicians who didn’t tax them at all?
Because there is more than one protest going on here.
Because the pictures you see are generally of Paris, where the cars are likely those of the Parisians who support both the fuel taxes and the current government. Because if I can’t afford to drive my truck to market my produce and feed my family, why should you still be able to take your smart car to buy another handbag?
Yep – more of the gimmedat brigade getting angry that they have to pay more for their goodies.
Or we’ll act like idiots!
Nothing as persuasive as wanton vandalism and destruction. Clearly, those motherfuckers at DHL are keeping the Frenchies down.
*rolls eyes*
But wanton vandalism and destruction are free speech! From the article:
Free speech doesn’t mean free access to someone else’s fucking property! Not that this isn’t a stupid law, but if you’re committing criminal trespass, you’re committing a crime, not exercising free speech. For fuck’s sake, at least the old civil protestors expected to be arrested and charged.
That’s been Reason’s position as well.
I only wander over there when someone links from here. What are they saying about twitter banning? My guess is it’s a wonderful example of the triumph of the free market over wrongthink.
I haven’t visited the site except through a few backlinks from here in probably a couple of years, but even then they were on the whole “ZOMG GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH!!!1one!111!” bandwagon when they told the Dakota Pipeline protestors they couldn’t camp out on government property and dump chemical toilets anymore. ENB was writing apologia for race riots. Shikha was supporting the Berkeley lynch mob and calling for violence against conservative speakers. Something tells me they’re pretty cool with Twitter bans. And shutting down alternative platforms.
I still get the magazine, as I gave them a huge donation in 2013 when they were still pretty good (at least I thought so).
KMW wrote an article basically saying it’s still private property, so no one else should decide what they do.
She’s not wrong and I agree. That being said, given where TOS sympathies lie, I expect the likes of Shika and ENB are downright giddy about deplatforming.
There was a 28 minute youtube vid I was watching with the riots around the Arc De Triomphe. What a shitshow and a mess.
Paris continues to burn
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
This is the most kitsch thing since the time of Baron von Kitsch
Builder of $200 Million Turkish Chateaux Project Goes Bankrupt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/builder-of-200-million-turkish-chateaux-project-goes-bankrupt?fbclid=IwAR127LXHKwivUaCaxQN5fPyeDivyH44CHOM_HevckqrYKH3CFFlFmI5qxdU
It’s an interesting take on McMansions.
Who wants to own a castle among a bunch of castles? The whole point of having a unique design is you’re the only one that has it. Dumb.
Also I never got building things close together in the middle of nowhere.
The only way that makes sense is if you are building a walkable development with a town center.
That is just downright ugly.
Michigan has a castle too – linky
You know what would be great? A house that looks like an asylum!
I’ve seen better looking asylums. Actually I like how they look. This didn’t seem like such a great reproduction.
I’ve seen better looking asylums.
Were they inside looks, too?
You can buy the Kirkbride Asylum in Fergus Falls Minnesoda if you want.
They’ve been trying to foist that off on someone for years, but can’t find a buyer. Ooops, too late. Looks like they are destroying it instead.
There is a mountaintop prison for sale cheap here, but of course, you’re not allowed to just buy it. You’ve got to buy it and do something with the land to improve the community. And the local government has to approve your plan and can force you to comply with it. Oh, and they can change the plan unilaterally.
https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/For-Sale-325-acre-N-Y-prison-Make-an-offer-10976254.php
That is what screwed the Kirkbride too. You couldn’t just buy it and be done with it. You had to do something with all of it.
So now the demolition costs are going to be paid by the taxpayers because we couldn’t just sell it to some filthy capitalist who might tear it down and do something with the land.
A shame because 325 acres? With a 10′ razorwire fence already installed? With an en-suite shooting range? For HOW much?
My favorite Minnesota asylum.
*warning, warning, warning*
Kentucky too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Castle
Regarding that defrauding the military article, they third or fourth hand cited a report. That is just terrible.
I like how they slipped in the ‘one of the men once celebrated New Year’s Eve with somebody who was cousins with someone who once met Hillary Clinton’.
That is almost as bad as the daily TDS on CNN.
Glad I wasn’t the only one to catch that. It’s like when they had breathless coverage of anyone who has ever been in the same zip code as trump.
Hell, I defrauded the Pentagon for 20 years, along with 1000s of others. I wasn’t supposed to do that?
The only unforgivable sin is getting caught.
There is a differentiation between I file numerous requests for payments for $1000 toilet seats so i can fund black ops projects, and I am just doing the same shit lawyers do with their billable hours so I can make a ton of money of the idiots paying taxes, I point out. These people were doing the later, which is why they are after them.
RE: the “This shit too” article.
I’ve never heard of Anham FZCO I have nothing but contempt for the big contracted companies like KBR. Huge, lucrative contracts and they do nothing but provide terrible everything. I’m a firm believer that it’s absolutely retarded to have a service member flipping eggs and handing out basketballs but the incentives for these companies is always to overcharge and under deliver, even when they aren’t setting out to outright rob the
governmenttaxpayers.Sir David Attenborough: Climate change ‘our greatest threat’
>>the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon
I consider it a bonus.
…the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon
Did these things happen during the previous Medieval and Roman warm periods? Why no, no they did not. So why should we expect it to happen if things get warmer again?
It was the end of the warm periods (aka :climatic optimums”) that contributed to the disruptions. Idiot watermelons gotta cry wolf.
Well if that is our biggest threat we can relax
Their idea of the people is a British Lord. . .
+1 jet setting ‘ environmentalist’
I’d really like to have a crystal ball to see if they are still beating this drum 20 years from now. I can’t help but think back to my childhood when acid rain was going to kill every single fresh water fish and melt our buildings to piles of rubble and how we were all going burn up once the hole in the Ozone opened up a little more. And now we’ve memory holed both those reason for why we need socialism NOW.
I’d be more interested to see if in 100 years if it is warmer, the people would say “why were they trying to stop this?”
what’s old is new
So we need to bring back CFC’s in our hairspray? Chemtrails need to be a real thing? I just…..can’t even keep up.
In the mid-’70s, the Next Ice Age™ was coming. And UV was gonna give us all skin cancer, because ozone.
He is not dead yet? *looks at watch*
Two things jump out – 1. Everything he says is a complete fiction. There is a lot of climate change in his head, but not much in the actual world. 2. The people’s seat huh? What is the first thing that pops in my head when I hear ‘The People’s… anything?
Fuckin’ commies.
Well said Suthen.
Where he will advocate for a “People’s Republic”? I hear they Get Things Done.
World’s first ‘Oral Sex Robot’ gets go-ahead after company exceeds crowdfunding target by 500%
“scientists”
Oh so you one of dem science deniers huh?
Hey everybody! Apparently, I’m a scientist.
Hey, they love fucking science!
Science was asking for it.
*Orson Welles clap*
My wife asked me the other day if I’d get a new girlfriend after she died or go celibate. I said by then hopefully they would have fully functional sex robots and she said that was “sad”.
But could a sex robot give you that same sense of lust / hate / love / anger / tears / laughter / craziness that a real woman could?
Yeah, I’m pretty skeptical that sexbots could ever ‘replace’ a partner. We aren’t wired that way. No matter how good they get they won’t be anything more than expensive masturbation aids.
they get they won’t be anything more than expensive masturbation aids.-
Im sorry, I wasn’t clear. That’s exactly what I’m looking for.
I don’t know man. I don’t want any aids with my masturbation.
So, all the sex without the drama? I thought we were trying to find a downside, here.
You will have to cuddle your robot in order to recharge it.
No but you will have to get it’s consent first
Related song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOtb81XK6Q
I am starting to think that I could really do without the crazy.
golden handcuffs = shrimp and grits
Sadly, the SEC can only crank out 3,000 sorority chicks a year.
Right over the plate and you missed it.
“Would you go celibate?”
“I already did. I got married.”
+1 bean jar joke
In case anyone doesnt know the bean jar joke:
When you are dating you put a bean in a jar every time you have sex. After you get married you take a bean out of the jar every time you have sex.
When you die there will still be beans in the jar.
Sunthen, I thought as a woodsman you would have a keener nose for a trap.
Sounds like she is in a hurry to find out.
Talk about supply and demand.
$2,50,000? Not sure what that number is supposed to be.
On the other hand this crowdfunding thing seem to be how you get ahead in life.
Those are metric dollars.
Does it make gagging noises? Does it cry? Does eyeliner run down its face?
No sale.
Twitter Magic
“But that was different.”
/proggies
In defense of the modern progressive, there is no way they are wrong about anything, so there is no risk of doing something bad
I’d venture to say that not a whole lot of actors, professors or writers were losing their careers and reputations for being gay in the 1950s, although it was different in other industries.
That is because they were successfully in the closet. If they ever got caught having gay sex then yeah they would have been gone faster than you could say blackballed
You mean like if they got caught in the act or what? Because it’s not like anybody in those communities was unaware of their orientation. It was more of a don’t ask don’t tell thing. For those that were insulated in those more liberal-leaning industries, most people were willing to look the other way. You wouldn’t show up at Rotary Club meetings with your lover, of course, but it was more or less an open secret type of system.
I thought “confirmed bachelors” and a man with a “roommate” were understood to be gay.
Yes, it was an open secret. You could absolutely be gay and get away with it as long as you kept it in the closet. You couldn’t EVER get caught holding hands or kissing your same sex lover and you had to make at least a minimal public display of being attracted to the opposite sex and go on at least occasional dates with them
Natalie Wood and Tab wouldn’t.
Why do I have a feeling it’s all finally coming to an end?
I am not optimistic that they, but particularly Her Shrillness, will ever go away. And I fully expect her to run in 2020.
Even if the Clinton’s are receding into obscurity, you get to look forward to decades of the Obama’s lecturing you.
She will lose the primary due to misogyny
She will lose it to her own daughter…
She won’t ever go to prison, but I do enjoy seeing their influence deteriorate before my eyes.
I take it as a foregone conclusion that he will be at the top to the SC list once the D’s hold the executive branch.
*shudders*
Maybe a brave Republican on the committee will request an official law school transcript. That would be entertaining.
“Even if the Clinton’s are receding into obscurity, you get to look forward to decades of the Obama’s lecturing you.”
From the article, there are apparently idiots willing to pay $300 to listen to Michelle Obama speak. Apparently, Leslie Knope is not a fictional character.
And the Crazy Train stops here!
Donald Trump, a socialist using communist principles
Please note “promote the general Welfare” content of the Preamble.
Holy shit, I had never even considered that before. Is anyone else aware of this insight?
They are keenly unaware that the preamble does not grant powers to the government.
Promote. Not establish. Not Provide. Not secure. Promote.
They do like to elide the “in order to.” See, that’s the magic escape clause that lets the government do EVERYTHING.
I’d argue that the best thing the government could do to promote the general welfare (I.E not a special interest) would be to disband. Now what mother fuckers?
^this, the general welfare clause is specifically a limitation on the enumerated powers, NOT a further grant. The Federal Government can only constitutionally do those things enumerated, and it can only do those things in ways that are designed to promote the GENERAL welfare. In other words no use of the power to tax, regulate commerce etc in order to serve special interests.
Up is down. Sounds legit.
Trump is a lot of things, but pinko shitweasel ain’t one of them.
Meh, it’s a semi appropriate criticism. He displays the same tendencies as all our fascist politicians. The want to direct and control business for their own pet projects. His are trade and immigration
He does want to intervene to privilege certain industries and advance his own agenda. If that makes one a communist then we made the transition long before the Bolsheviks. The nearest thing all of our modern “mixed economies” resemble is none other than Italian fascism.
It is amazing how little one notices changes in personal aptitude in creative tasks. I was harvesting ideas I’d used in unpublished stories for a new work that crossed the same setting and some of the same characters. What struck me most was how poorly written the stories were. I mean this work was done very deliberately over a protracted period from 2006-2011, and I just recently hammered out at a sprint a work with better characterization, plotting and flow than they possed. Along the way, I completely failed to notice the incremental change in quality of output.
I did a lot of worldbuilding and the ideas are salvagable, even if the text is not.
There are two kinds of people: some people’s perspective grows and some don’t. Welcome to the lot of us who live long enough to regard, regret, and rebuild.
I’m in a tremendous regret phase, but it’s not about finally examining my own life. No, rather: I regret all the futile plans, arguments, wars, pageants, and campaigns that others continue to heap upon me and for which I will have no truly compelling argument against. My philosophy will remain floating above reality, untried; my hopes of a world where people mind their own business, earn their own way, and explore their neighbor’s produce, talents and insights in an un-compelled, and non-abusive calm are, apparently, bankrupt. My sanest thoughts are rejected out of hand in the flash (flush?) of 140 characters.
My high achievements of the week were putting lights on the dogwood and not giving a shit while the MIL dropped passive aggressive political barbs between day-long bouts of FoxNews. I could unload a million reasons on her head as to how her statist, cop-sucking notions have helped reinforced a less happy world for her grandchildren, Keith Richards, Lou Reed to inherit, but fuck it: it’s not worth it. And then, suddenly, after a week, she was on a plane back to eastern standard time and I had peace and the joy of pressure-washing her insane instant hazelnut residue out of my coffee pot.
Many musicians feel the same way about their creative efforts. This leads to the conundrum that the fans want to hear the music from those first couple of albums that were popular “back in the day” but the band tends to look at those songs as primitive, crude efforts from when they were still learning the craft. However, nobody wants to hear stuff from their new album.
I just saw Elvis Costello a few weeks ago. He deals with the ‘greatest hits’ conundrum by reworking the songs – often in different keys, etc.
Frankly, it’s one of the things I like best about seeing my old faves is how much they’ve grown musically and what they can do with their early catalog to make it relevant. I have no interest in hearing the old hits exactly as they were.
I have Spotify for that.
His final encore, however, was a blistering version of What’s So Funny played straight ahead and loud! It was terrific.
I saw Jonny Lang twice last year. His biggest hit was ” Lie to me.” He does a really cool 1/2 acoustis version of hit now. His other big hit, “still raining” he doesn’t do at all. Best show I’ve seen in the last five years. I’ll go see him every chance I get.
Yes. The first book I published (no way near the badness of the first under-the-bed book) had lots of problems. So many I re-edited it and put the old one out of print.
But that first one is very beloved by a lot of people and I can only cringe and headdesk.
That’s very George Lucas of you.
I confess I did ret-con a few details.
Hopefully nothing so stupid as adding a rock in front of R2-D2.
The equivalent. Made some things a tidge more opaque and revealed some things better.
I would’ve been the viewer asking why R2-D2 was in plain view.
To be fair, a lot of bands change so much they effectively become a different band after enough time. People aren’t being crazy or unfair if they don’t like the new stuff.
You know who else shut down free speech…
German police shut down concert over illegal Nazi chants
You know who else was “from the right-wing scene” in Germany?
Paul von Hindenburg?
Leon Draisaitl?
It’s amazing to me that people are PROUD to be LEFT of Hitler.
https://twitter.com/LloydLegalist/status/1069281122188750850
LOLOLOLOL
Umm, I don’t have kids, but is it okay to throw a baby in a snowbank?
If you don’t want them to grow up weak.
Florida Man, we don’t question when Floridians drop their babies in pools of alcohol and drifts of cocaine.
Let us northerners have our peculiar institutions and we shall allow you to have yours as well.
When cultures collide!
Or letting them swim in gator-snake-whatever other deadly critter-infested waters.
“Florida Man, we don’t question when Floridians drop their babies in pools of alcohol and drifts of cocaine.”
That’s good. My little Mercedes is gonna be the best stripper ever!
It’s best after a good sauna. Pronounced sow-na…
Nothing like a couple of burly Finns asking if you want to go sow-na
http://www.duluthsauna.com/
Other cities have gay bars. Mine has a gay sauna.
Sounds hot.
Ever been to the Ely Bath house?
The comments are even better!
Molson?! Now that is child abuse.
Molson was the best beer available at every bar I ever went to in Buffalo during my college years.
I was going to pile on with “market fail”
but then got to thinking back on Miller Genuine Draft
/withdrawn
Molson’s Golden is OK. It’s the high school girlfriend of beers: Smells bad, but tastes OK.
As long as it isn’t yellow snow, you are fine.
^^^THIS^^^
The Spanish have a saying: Lo que no mata, engorda.
Monday Motorcycles — specify whether ranking the women or the bikes:
https://thesexier.com/girls-on-motorcycles-pics/
Women: 7, 9 (OMG that hair), 22
Motorcycles: There’s motorcycles?
Nexstar is set to acquire Tribune Media for $4.1 billion
Bwahahahaha
Like the decisions that ANY broadcast tv station makes has any impact on “diversity in programming: any longer. You are talking about consolidation in a dying industry that pretty much no one under 60 cares about any longer.
Donald Trump’s socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor performance as practiced by communism. All communist leaders live lives of luxury while expecting their “subjects” to sacrifice for them, a la Donald Trump.
This excretion reminds me of something I saw the other day. I have no idea where I saw it, because the incessant ravings all meld together. Fascism is a purely social phenomenon. Fascism is a term describing the interactions between ethnic and social groups in a nation. Nothing to do with economics. Nothing at all.
And now you know.
If anyone’s keeping a list, thats gotta be in the top ten most projeciest projections that ever projected.
The link said seats to see the Clintons near Houston start at $11 — but now seats are available at $6 to $7:
Loge 209
Row M $6 each
Glibertarian meetup?
Is that a proxy pricing system for bribes? Like when the Clintons were at their peak seats were 40 bucks and you had to buy a thousand seats to get a government contract and now they have no power so at 6 bucks a seat you buy 5 seats and get a selfie?
At the end of his life Geranimo could be found by the side of the highway selling trinkets and posing for photo’s for $1……I can only hope that’s how Hillary ends up.
But a dollar could buy a months groceries back then!
“At the end of his life Geranimo could be found by the side of the highway selling trinkets and posing for photo’s for $1”
I’m pretty sure Geranimo died in a military prison on Fort Sill.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were someone claiming to be geronimo that posed to photographs along the roadside with oblivious tourists.
Old news paper From this link:
http://genealogytrails.com/oka/Geronimo.html
“The old warrior lives among different Indians at various places on the reservation. He spends his time in making bows and arrows and other trinkets to sell on the streets of Lawton and in rambline over the prairies and along the streams. His bows and arrows are readily sold, not only to visitors who chance to meet him on the street but to residents of the city who desire them to send away to the states or to keep as souvenirs of having met and dealt with Geronimo. His figure, while a common one on the street, is very conspicuous and around him crowds gather and purchase his trinkets and attempt to get him to talk. He appears to be pleased with the honor shown him and with a no saba smiles in answer to all inquiries. He is quite often asked to give an exhibition of his skill as a marksman with the bow. This he readily consents to do provided a nickle is made the target and is to become his own in case he hits it. His nerve is steady and he makes but few failures at the mark. Many a man has been made to remark: “I paid a dollar to see that old scamp at Buffalo. Geronimo (next is unreadable until) of the furrows of old age. He waslks squarely though with a slow tread. His places of abode vary from five to ten miles from the city, yet it is no uncommon occurance for him to walk in, do his trading and go back the same day”
You re correct he died at Fort Sill. The arrangement seems to be he had sty in the area but was free to roam about.
Very cool article.
Though the differences between Lawton, OK and a Prison are few.
psst: you can get good tacos in prison
Are you John?
Geranimo?
I’m trying to get the term John-o changed to Bob-o’s.
At that price they make good gag gifts.
Brilliant. Now I want to buy a bunch to give as stocking stuffers to my progressive in-laws who live nowhere near Texas.
#MeToo claims Baby, it’s Cold Outside…
I distinctly remember this being a tumblr feminist meme going back at least 10 years.
Pat, our resident tumblr feminist
What can I say, 400 pounds, purple hair, acne, and gender dysphoria is my fetish.
Yeah this one has been around for a while. Not sure how much before that but people were calling “the Date Rape song” back around the same time as Blurred Lines came out in 2012.
And yeah Progressives are REALLY stupid here because anyone who listens to the song will hear that she REALLY wants to stay the night and is just going through the formality of making excuses for what she is going to do of her own free will so she can retain her sense of propriety
I already hated that song.
Meh. It’s a publicity stunt. I grew up in Cleveland and had to look up what station this was. I think it may have gotten them more attention then they expected though…
Still not as big of a deal as when the BBC was going to censor the best Christmas song ever.
Still not as big of a deal as when the BBC was going to censor the best Christmas song ever.
That’s not The Night Santa Went Crazy
There is nothing wrong with that song. Absolutely nothing. It’s good. It’s quirky and i like the down-and-out, semi-tragic love story playing off the typical Day-Glo schmaltz of Christmas songs.
Why people think it is an amazing song, and especially The Greatest Xmas Song Of All Time, is absolutely baffling. It’s not exceptional in any way, save for squeezing “cunt” and “faggot” into an Xmas song. It’s certainly not very interesting musically.
South Park is already way ahead of them:
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/90r7i1/bill-cosby-and-taylor-swift-duet
(but we all knew that). I’v always thought the song bordered on creepy but I don’t understand the need to expunge it from existence. I hate the music and am offended by the lyrics of many gangster rap songs but I just change the radio station like a fucking adult.
“like a fucking adult.”
Problematic. Do you get consent first?
I’m not buying this nonsense. To get to this conclusion, you have to assume any form of persuasion is coercive. He’s trying to persuade her to spend the night and she wants to, but is reluctant because she wants to preserve her reputation has always been the impression I’ve gotten from the song.
I mean, if the song went “I really can’t stay…(slap) shut the f**k up bi**h!”, that would be an entirely different story.
I find it so stupid. It’s a nasty winter day and he’s trying to persuade her—not to decide to spend time with him— because she already wants to do that– but convince her that it’s ok to stay. Like “it’s ok you won’t get in trouble” or “Oh, they can manage without you for a little while….”
She wants to do something and his game is to try and convince her to do what she already wants.
And people think that it’s about fucking drugging her. It’s a drink! People have them! Scold!
There was a second version of the song in the movie (Neptune’s Daughter) with the genders reversed.
Meanwhile, VT mulls a carbon tax.
But don’t worry, it won’t affect business at all, and any money the state pulls in will go to the poor rural people who are affected by the lack of any change in the economy because that all makes sense, right?
I’m applying at every fucking school and hospital anywhere not full fucking retarded.
Good luck.
I read somewhere that there were almost record levels of snowfall this November in Vermont. Will a carbon tax help? Because it may be worth it
Yeah, I had about 3 feet come last week.
It’s mostly gone now, rainy and 40 all weekend.
You’re right, we need that tax to make sure we keep winter here.
The dumbest is vpr saying “we need to make a coalition with the rest of new England states” and also “no effect on biz”
It was a heat wave here, we were all the way up into the 60’s yesterday. Walking around without a coat for a day was nice, but we’re back into the 20’s and 30’s this week.
Same down here in this corner.
They need to merge with the other New England States.
This can’t be good for the price of maple syrup.
I keep hearing a wall wouldn’t work from people.
But could it?
Wall is massively overpaid starting next year and not that good… also crap at shooting 3s
Seeing how the cartels have tunnels already, and working on trebuchet technology, it may be futile.
What’s trebuchet tech?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/15/us/marijuana-catapult-trnd/index.html
That’s a waste of time. If/when weed goes legal it is really going to hurt the cartels. I’m not sure that other drugs have the same market size.
Cartels having tunnels are fine. At least they provide goods people want.
If you are serious about stopping illegal immigration the most effective way is to enforce laws against illegal immigrants. Make them show proof of residency before putting kids in school, fine people that employ illegals, seize property of people found here illegally and deport them with just the clothes on their back. Is that cruel? Yes. Would it work? As well as the war on drugs has.
Oh, you’re looking for a humane solution.
I was looking for a final solution, but my PR guy says I shouldn’t use that term.
If you’re worried about PR, you’re not going to get an effective deterrant. I’d recommend using the remains of the people ‘deported’ to decorate the wall. Seeing rotting corpses impaled upon the battlements has a demoralizing effect on people looking to cross a barricade without permission.
What’s this about Puerto Rico? Are we gonna start calling them illegals too?
It’s not clear to me why a wall wouldn’t drastically cut down on illegal immigration. Especially one combined with armed guards that wouldn’t hesitate to use force. That may not be something we want to do, but that’s different then saying it would be ineffective.
Even ineffective barriers provide a important notice of intention. Without a fence, I don’t know if someone just happened to accidentally wander onto my land. My perimeter fence topped with barbed wire can be easily climbed. However, I immediately know the intentions of trespassers who do so and can respond accordingly.
” Especially one combined with armed guards that wouldn’t hesitate to use force. ”
Categorically different than just a border wall. If you wanted that it would be even more if a boondoggle than it is even currently suggested.
Having armed guards defending a wall would be useless?
I can see there being better uses of money spent. I can raining hot lead down upon civilian trespassers not being something we morally want to do.
I don’t see how anyone could doubt that doing so though wouldn’t be effective at reducing illegal immigration on the borders. Israel cleared up their internal problem real quick with a wall + armed guards.
“Having armed guards defending a wall would be useless?”
Quite the opposite. I’m saying that it is categorically different from just a “Border Wall” which is merely an obstacle, rather than an active block. And in true american political fashion, i think the only thing Republicans would spend any political capital on is a hollow gesture for their base that gets nothing changed.
Also I’d be opposed to having armed guards at the border on a wall, cause it’s only a few steps till She Guevara decides to turn those guards on Americans trying to flee her socialist paradise.
Yes definitely. A wall built to keep people out can just as easily be turned around to keep people in. That would be my biggest objection to it.
How much do you want to spend to build and maintain the wall, then build and maintain the system of fortifications to serve as garrisons for the troops protecting that wall and then paying for the troops to staff it in perpetuity.
The US Mexico border is 3100 km long, as a practical matter you will need a 2 man team for every kilometer of it for 3 shifts a day at a minimum. That works out to 18,600 armed border guards. You will need a base to house those guards every 50 km at most which means building 62 garrisons capable of supporting 300 men each most of which will be in the middle of the desert with no supporting infrastructure like power or water or roads anywhere nearby. So in addition to the 18,600 troops manning the wall you are going to need another few thousand providing logistical support.
Assuming a total cost of employment for those border guards and the logistical support of $60,000 a year you are looking at $1.5 billion a year just in salaries and at least another billion a year in logistical support for them (food, fuel, energy, gear, vehicles, electronics, etc.) and we still haven’t touched the cost of building and maintaining the wall.
Lets assume that it costs roughly twice as much to build the wall as it does to build a 4 lane highway. That is ~$10 million per mile, so now you are looking at 31 billion to build the wall and likely another $30 billion to build the infrastructure to support the garrisons for the guards. Now you are up to $62 billion in construction costs. Maintenance, well again I will base it on road maintenance costs since there is some similarity and it is an easy to find number. It generally costs about $8k per mile to maintain a 4 lane highway per year. The wall should cost less since it isn’t being driven on so lets call it $5k per mile for maintenance but we also have to maintain all of the infrastructure to support the 62 garrisons stretching across the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona deserts and that will easily cost twice what the wall maintenance will but that still comes in at a relatively minor $60 million per year
So if you want an unmanned wall you can build it for as little as $30 billion with about $20 million a year in maintenance costs (probably more because immigrants will absolutely break holes in it as they seek to cross it. If you want to man the wall you are looking at spending more than $60 billion in building the wall and the infrastructure to support the forces manning it and then $2.5 billion a year in perpetuity.
And for all of that what do you get? Illegals go around the wall and use boats to the Louisana Bayou or over to the Florida Everglades and enter that way
I am not advocating doing this. Just saying that a manned border wall would be very effective at reducing illegal immigration. Yes, there will be ways around it. I imagine most people will choose not to try to the Everglades than those that freely waltz across now. Of those trying the Everglades, I imagine most will die than be successful. Illegal immigration would be greatly reduced.
As far as costs, that is is a rounding error compared to spending on entitlement programs.
I’m not advocating for building a wall or manning. I do a think strong>manned wall would be extremely effective at reducing illegal immigration. At least a 90% reduction. Doesn’t mean we should do it.
We have 15,00 troops do we have in Afghanistan. We could bring the boys home, reassign a few based stateside, and have them actually performing a legitimate military function for once.
Or you know we could just downsize the military
Minefields are both extremely effective and inexpensive.
And ridiculously easy to circumvent/neutralize if they are not guarded by people shooting at those trying to cross
I think because the length of the border makes setting up a manned perimeter logistically prohibitive. Even just using aerial surveillance and intelligence and what not to find out where large numbers of people will cross and sending people to intercept them is an expensive and difficult thing to do with anything like a worthwhile success rate. To my mind, the real key is to change the incentives. People are going to come up here so long as they can get some free shit, they can find well-paying work, and/or it’s nicer than where they came from. Until you change those motivators, you’re going to get immigration, legal and otherwise. It’s no surprise that Mexico and Central America, where the economies are largely crap, governments are corrupt and ineffectual, and violence is endemic, are where most of our illegal immigrants come from. If you’re some poor dummy from Guadalajara, Pasadena, MD looks like heaven.
Hurricane Katrina is an object lesson in why a wall, in isolation, will never work. When you have enough pressure (be it hydrological in nature or economic in nature), weak points will be found and exploited. The only way to curb illegal immigration is to kill the incentives to illegally migrate. A good start would be limiting applicability of government programs to people who are here legally. A better start would be killing the minimum wage and other employment regulations that make hiring above board labor prohibitively expensive.
Good luck with any of that – the left is firmly opposed to all of it.
I don’t think it has to be an either/or scenario. A border wall aside, I’d like to see an tightening on border control coupled with loosening of restrictions for legal immigrants to enter. Ideally it should be easier to enter legally than try other means.
Drop birthright citizenship and all entitlement spending. Problem solved.
I made an argument along those lines in a paper for a class a little while ago. If you start with the assumption that immigration in general is either not a bad thing or not something you can realistically stop, then your best strategy to handle immigration is to combine more effective enforcement of existing laws with revisions to the system that make it simpler, more efficient, and less restrictive. Basically, make it easier to follow the law and more expensive to break it. Then the entitlement spending becomes less of a problem because more immigrants are in the system paying taxes, able to work regular jobs without worrying about immigration status issues, etc. On the other side, if you get busted in this country illegally, you get one mulligan provided you haven’t committed any non-immigration crimes, and if it happens again you’re out for good. If you’re caught again, it’s a felony.
What makes anyone think it would work? We all understand prohibition and black markets here. A wall is just another attempt at prohibition that will be defeated one way or another.
People get heroin in prison. Immigrants will bypass the wall on waybir another.
Is that cruel? Yes. Would it work? As well as the war on drugs has.-
My same conclusion.
Nobody says a wall would stop all illegal migrants, but a properly designed, constructed and monitored one would seriously cut the number of those coming in.
Immigration isn’t prohibited, we’re just asking them to use the front door.
it’s so simple: you just have gorillas fling sharks and gators at them
In the early nineteenth century, physicians designed the first manufactured showers for the purpose of curing the insane. Sustained falls of cold water were prescribed to cool hot, inflamed brains, and to instil fear to tame impetuous wills. By the middle of the century showers had appeared in both asylums and prisons, but shower-related deaths led to their decline. Rather than being abandoned, however, the shower was transformed by the use of warm water to economically wash the skins of prison and asylum populations. In stark contrast to an involuntary, deliberately unpleasant treatment, by the end of the century the shower was a desirable product for the improvement of personal hygiene and population health.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0957154X18801766?
Well the Wikipedia section on history of the shower does not agree with this
You know who else had alternate uses for showers?
Donald Trump in a certain Russian hotel?
Gold Jerry, pure gold!
Norman Bates?
San Francisco homeless ?
Gonna answer my own here….
Mr. Bikus
(Middle school gym teacher)
Note: Lynyrd Skynyrd was a variation on the name of their Middle school gym teacher
Sandusky?
History is subjective and this is their truth.
But I’m surprised they overlook how often men have used showers to do their evil penis thing to women. The shower is a symbol of American Rape culture. Non-patriarchal society’s like the middle East hardly ever shower.
And what are the sales like for Hillary’s dumbass tour?
Same with Michelle. I’ve heard Barry doesn’t fill up. Does Michelle outperform him?
I wouldn’t pay a penny to listen to those three say little of intellectual value.
My MIL doesn’t want Stormy Daniels book. She wants Michelle Obama’s book. Lol. I buy everything on my account but I told my wife I don’t want that stain on my buying record.
“Does Michelle outperform him?
Not sure if this is public record.
I’m sure in a full-court game, she can easily take it to the house.
I saw Star Wars and remember Han’s warning to Luke about Wookies not liking to lose and ripping people’s arms of their bodies… Barack learned that lesson quick I bet..
I was wandering around a Barnes & Noble the other day and saw this gem.
Purchased for my newborn nephew to have some positive associations of presidential figures.
What is wrong with these people?
They’re filling the void in their lives that ought to be filled by family? They never had any real heroes to look up to? Humans have an instinctive craving for spiritual guidance and in the absence of religion will fill it with whatever they can find?
Hugs from Obama: A Photographic Look Back at the Warmth and Wisdom of President Barack Obama
*cringe*
selling access just dont pay so well when you have no access to sell
OT: I smoked my first pork belly last night and sliced it into delicious 1/4 bacon slabs this morning. Wrapped most of it in butcher paper and put it in the freezer. I took the end pieces and fried them up and ate them with scrambled eggs. Homemade bacon is to store-bought bacons what fresh eggs are to store-bought eggs. I’m just sad it took me this long to start.
Phrases such as ‘bringing home the bacon’ will be phased out as veganism awareness grows, academic claims
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/meatrelated-sayings-could-go-out-of-fashion-to-avoid-offending-vegans-a4006486.html
Fuck our feelings.
If you get offended so easily, it’s your own damn fault. I’m not going to walk on eggshells to avoid offending vegans.
I have no respect for the easily offended evangelical Vegans. If you can’t respect my choice to be the obligate omnivore humans are biologically geared to, don’t expect me to respect your choice to deprive yourself.
I’ll worry about evangelical vegans when I meet one that doesn’t look like they could be bowled over by a good gust of wind. It’s like the math club decided it was a good idea to start throwing their weight around on the playground.
Baloney. No shrimpy vegan is going to butcher my vocabulary.
If they have a beef with me, ill gladly set them straight.
I hope the “baaaaa” noises I made when we last had dinner were to your satisfaction.
Our traditional Easter menu is Agnus Dei and Easter Bunny. I am baffled why domestic rabbit isn’t eaten more often.
They are not rabbits. They are hares. And they are cute, fuzzy and fucking delicious.
Did you follow Spud’s recipe?
No, I got this from a buddy:
!/4 cup of salt
2 tsp pink salt
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 Maple syrup
Rub over 4 lbs pork belly & refrigerate 5 days. Then smoke at 175 for 3 hours.
Came out PERFECT.
Over what type of wood? And when is it sliced?
I used Hickory. I stuck it in the fridge overnight after it came out of the smoker so it would be firm when I sliced it.
More to the point, slicing should always happen post-smoking.
Okay. Thanks. I’m not sure I’m going to make use of the info anytime soon, due to questions of ventillation.
Agreed. We go through 18 eggs every couple of days so need to buy from the store to keep up, but the eggs we get from friends are amazing. And they don’t fall apart in your hand when you try to crack them…
Sounds delicious BTW.
Where were you buying your eggs that they ‘fell apart in your hand’?
The road between the store and his house is crap, and his suspension is shot.
Umm. Every grocery store I’ve ever bought something from? Granted, these Re the cheapest eggs you can buy. The fancy organic/cage-free/free-range whatever are better. You’ve never noticed the difference in shell thickness from cheap to high-quality eggs?
Nice. I have a Canadian bacon curing in my fridge right now. Should be done by the end of the week and ready to cold-smoke on Sunday.
This is my son’s first time curing meat, so we kept it to just NaCl, pink salt, and maple syrup. What did you do on your bacon?
You make bacon out of Canadians?
You’re a monster.
Too fatty?
I’m assuming this was intended as the link to the Ocasio-Cortez story:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/30/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-seat-on-powerful-house-finance-committee/
I’m thinking someone who led the charge to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again will get choice committee spots like the Committee on Livestock Manure Recycling, but maybe Pelosi is crazy enough to reward bad behavior instead of punishing it hard.
Seriously. If she gets a seat America is retarded and deserves its fate.
Do first-term representatives generally get seats on any committees?
I think it has to do with pocket depth and leadership acquiescence. The reps literally buy their way on to committees by raising money for the Party (comrade).
But, but, she’s got an incredible amount of social media influence!
Yeah, we’ve become that dumb.
She also has an econ degree!
She should demand that school reimburse her for leaving her totally illiterate when it comes to economics..
She’s certainly not shaking the entitled millennial stereotype
Is she gone in two years when a better positioned female dem beats Ocasio in the 2020 primaries?
It’s certainly possible. Turnout is everything in primaries:
Primary: On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Joe Crowley’s 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points.
General: Ocasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (100,044) to Pappas’s 13.8% (17,762).
Basically, if someone can get 16% or so of the Democrats who will vote in the primary, that might do it. 20% would likely be a coast to victory.
The problem is that labor unions, who run socialist to commie, are really good at getting their members to show up for primaries, resulting in someone who is likely well to the left of the median voter for this district. I’m guessing it isn’t possible for a Democrat in this district to lose to a Republican, no matter how crazy hard-left the D is.
Yes, she is in the modern equivalent of a rotten borough.
I dont think that is how it works. Those seats are bought. Moron is moronic.
She thinks it’s the Fiance Committee, she wants to be the one to arrange marriages.
“Oh, I have had it, I have HAD it with this school, Skinner! The low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children!” For some reason they all are back-to back on Mondays. Fuckin’ ‘ell.
I have 19 more workdays left. Then I get a double paycheck and $5500 in pension money. Thank god.
My HomePlus (Tesco/Walmart equiv) now has Tostitos Creamy Spinach Dip. I have a belt tied around my arm and am injecting it into my Lucky Vein.
I’m going to watch a Columbo episode, whom I believe to be the finest character in this history of television. George Costanza and Barney Fife may also apply. Today sucked and I’m glad it’s over. I hope the rest of you can get through it without too many casualties.
I have a belt tied around my arm and am injecting it into my Lucky Vein.
OK, I get the numb arm thing, because some people like it when it feels like somebody else is choking their chicken, but I’m not able to get on board with injecting creamy spinach dip into your urethra.
You know who else injected creamy dip?
Peter North ?
Don’t overlook Eddie Haskell.
whom I believe to be the finest character in this history of television
Not in a world that has seen Rip Torn’s Artie (Larry Sanders).
My vote is Frank Cannon, because who doesn’t want to see an overweight private detective huffin’ and puffin’ around and getting into fistfights?
Second place: Barnaby Jones – an aged private detective who looks like a sudden gust of wind would blow him over.
Nope. You were close, though.
The answer is Jim Rockford.
Jim Rockford. Tundra, you are my favorite person today.
For you, amigo!
Never engage:
Woman fatally stabbed in Baltimore after rolling down car window to give a woman money
Police say Jacquelyn Smith and her family were driving through the 1000 block of Valley St. in the Johnston Square neighborhood at 12:27 a.m. when they saw a young woman carrying what appeared to be a baby and holding a cardboard sign that said “Please Help me feed my Baby.” Smith, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, rolled down the window to give her money.
A man then approached the car to thank the family — before he reached into the car and tried to grab the woman’s wallet. After a struggle, police said, the man took out a knife and stabbed Smith.
…at 12:27 a.m….
Wut?
And if you insist on engaging, maybe do it when the sun is at least out.
Imma say, moar likely a drug transaction that did not work out as planned.
With all the welfare bennies available in the US, there is no reason to ever give any panhandler money.
My son and stopped at a mall for lunch a few weeks ago. There were a couple of panhandlers by the front entrance. Literally half the stores inside had help-wanted signs.
There was an old Henry Rollins spoken word bit that was bitching about teenage panhandlers. Rollins talks about how he asked the young lad if he was physical disabled, mentally deficient, or otherwise unable to hold down a job. When the teenager said no to all of that, Rollins responds by showing him a couple hundred dollars, putting it back into his pocket, and saying to take it from him. Rollins then explains that at least robbery will get the teenager off of their ass and doing something.
I have the feeling that he doesn’t tell that story any more.
I saw him a couple of times live- once around 2007 or so and once a couple years later. It was always a bit jarring listening to his spoken word stuff from the 90s shortly before these shows – he went from something of a fierce individualist to Team Blue cocksucker sometime during the Bush administration, then doubled down on it when Obamessiah got elected.
He is also an excellent raconteur and very entertaining when talking about his world travels or his time touring as a musician. He is a very shitty version of John Stewart when he gets political.
When I lived in Vegas the panhandlers were extremely aggressive if the caught you while stopped at red light. they’d knock on you window and give you dirty looks for not acknowledging them. I always kept my .357 snub nose within easy reach.
My aunt one time had a woman flag her down in the we hours of the morning claiming car trouble. While she was talking to the woman a man came up and tried the passenger side door handle. Luckily it was locked and she sped off.
No sympathy for homeless people. Get a fucking job.
At Tropicana and Industrial (er, Dean Martin now) right by the In-N-Out Burger off the 15 I saw the same 4 or 5 panhandlers the entire 3 years I lived there. They had that intersection locked down. I saw the cabbies cuss them out more than once. Dudes were probably living in Spanish Trail honestly.
Yeah it was the same on Craig Rd on my way to work. At some point the cops must have broke up that little group because they went away. No doubt they are back now or just over to another intersection. The Vegas homeless are almost as bad a problem as the Vegas cops.
Vegas cops are like Andy Taylor compared to the psychopaths in Henderson.
I lived up North when I was there so I never had any interactions with Henderson PD. They all act like gestapo there. It was Vegas PD that
shotexecuted Erik Scott though.Consider yourself lucky. Even compared to the city police, the Henderson PD are the most trigger happy motherfuckers you’ve ever seen in your life, and they operate with impunity. The city PD at least had the DOJ crawling up their ass. One particular incident I remember from back then was an officer involved shooting where the cop involved was married to the judge who handled the oversight…
the entire metro area is the poster child for desperately needed police reform and it’s the number one reason I’m happily not living there anymore. Never in my life have I lived any place else where I felt like I absolutely needed to concealed carry and simultaneously felt like CC was going to get me shot by the cops.
Other than a couple of traffic citations I never really encountered the cops that much when I lived in the city, but that’s been 10 years. Seems like both the crime and police corruption has gotten worse since then. When I moved out here to Pahrump in 2013 I had to spend a couple days in the city buying a car and some of the neighborhoods had changed quite a lot.
That having been said there’s a whole litany of reasons why southern Nevada is a shit hole. I’ll be moving somewhere else about 15 minutes after I can afford it.
I can appreciate that sentiment. I moved to WV in 2015. When WV is objectively better you know you came from an unqualified shit hole.
When I went to Vegas in December 2017 to see the Misfits, I stayed a block away from the Fremont Street Experience. There was a 7/11 about two blocks from there that I walked to in order to buy a pack of smokes, and was followed for a while by a bunch of very aggressive bums.
Being trapped in traffic violates my rules for situational awareness, one of which is find/maintain an escape route. Bums notice they can’t get to me, that the tall hillbilly in the work truck won’t pull up to the light to be accosted. Fuck ’em.
Argh – was waiting downtown for my wife outside of a store when a panhandler knocked on the passenger window. I screamed: “Don’t fucking touch the car!”
go all Early Cuyler on his ass
Panhandler did something to me this weekend that almost started a fight. I pulled into a parking spot at Lowes with my daughter in the passenger seat. Just as we were getting out, the bum came up from out of sight on the rear passenger side right next to my 11 year old daughter. I was not pleased.
1. Baltimore.
2. Where’s the baby?
3. From the wiki for the neighborhood: “The neighborhood contains portions of the Baltimore City Correctional Facilities and its residents are mostly low income African-American families. It has been used as a filming location on the HBO drama The Wire.”
Baltimore, for all it’s charms, is a crime-riddled shithole that should be nuked from orbit. There is never–never–a good reason to engage with locals, especially in shitty neighborhoods. Frankly, I think there’s never a good reason to go to Baltimore, but it takes all kinds.
File in the “Nothing left to cut” folder: Minnesoda will spend $675K for guard rails at state capitol.
1) No injuries have been reported yet
2) $675K?
3) I need to get into the capitol renovation business.
The story has pics of how temporary barriers are “protecting” the public so far.
Do you have your capitol renovation license? I didn’t think so
Drive by when they’re installing it. I’d be willing to bet you’ll see one construction worker installing it while 6 others stand around and watch.
Proper supervision is important
You forgot the state worker to supervise the vendor, and the supervisor for the state worker to make sure they’re supervising the vendors and not slacking off… But that may not be in the same budgetary line item as the work.
That picture reminds me of how dismal urban Minnesota can be in the winter. Thank Odin for places like Theodore Wirth Park that are relief from concrete, asphalt and piles of shoveled snow.
First thing we do, let’s kill all the pollsters
Geographical differences also are obvious in questions about Trump’s job approval and feelings about the Republican Party he leads. Overall, 43 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, the poll shows, with 61 percent in rural areas giving him positive marks. But the number falls to 44 percent approval among those in small towns, 41 percent in the suburbs and 31 percent for city dwellers.
Roughly two-thirds of rural Americans have favorable feelings toward the president, while just a third of those in cities like him.
The Republican Party is viewed favorably by 58 percent in rural areas. That number is closer to four-in-ten for those in towns (37 percent), suburbs (41 percent) and cities (39 percent).
Why do I assume all this yapping about the “rural vs metropolitan” divide is just a self-reinforcing delusion?
As a lawyer i resent your cultural appropriation! We go first damn it.
Speaking in generalities, the closer one is to working with raw material, the more likely they are to be right-wing/free market, the more distant they are from raw materials, the more leftists/socialist they become. The rural/urban cultural divide makes sense.
When you think food comes from a grocery store and electricity comes from a hole in the wall, it becomes easier to embrace bad economics.
Yep. I also wonder whether complete insulation from manual labor has a negative effect. It seems that you have to confront certain inbuilt realities when a segment of fence falls down and your cattle wander halfway to town. When you’re a graphic design freelancer or a actuarial assistant, you’re sitting on top of so many layers of human intervention (from indoor plumbing to HVAC to computers to sophisticated communication equipment, etc) that you don’t have to confront the fact that only you are responsible for your outcome.
^^This from Trshmnstr.
Everybody should have to, at least once in their life, kill, clean, and prepare their own meat.
And eat it, too.
I had a conversation with a 10 year old girl in which she explained to me that hunting deer was bad and people should get their meat from the store. The similarities between progressive thought and little kid thought are enlightening.
Did you listen to here more? Perhaps she was expounding on the benefits of industrial meat production?
“animals taste better when they’re sad, mister!”
Absolutely
consuming is only one side of a market; to design, plan, and build is to understand; the more I’ve built, the less interested and patient I’ve become with those who have never milked a cow, dug a ditch, hitched to a bushhog, poured a footing, bent a conduit, wired a panel, sized a motor, wrote a quality manual, designed a product, imported a tool, put a pallet of product on a truck on time, created a job, made a payroll, wrote an owner’s manual, passed a C-TPAT audit, honored a warranty claim, or bought a Title V permit.
The thing, at least for me, is that you don’t have to do any of that stuff if you don’t want. However, you don’t get to pretend that your opinion on economics and business matters.
Ignorance + perceived legitimacy = recipe for disaster
“I, Pencil” comes to mind. If only more kids had that as freshman reading.
This is a really good point. Setting aside at the myriad problems with welfare subsidies in agriculture, I partly credit my libertarianism to working on both a dairy farm and cattle ranch as a young man. Understanding where things come from and seeing how easily regulation can make a profitable farm unprofitable gave me a health skepticism or government intervention.
And when you work that hard for your paycheck you really start to take exception to that income tax deduction.
Your points are well taken
but my agrarian examples were just outtakes from my own youth; nothing holy about my path to autonomy other than it worked.
As for the regulation, it’s a shame that a one-man shop usually can’t compete on a small scale: the cost of specialty staffing and consulting must be amortized over a huge base to make compliance feasible.
I could be a successful small guy just by cutting out corporate nonsense: the constant, distracting non-value-add email drama cycles; the marginally successful analysis, the cycles of hiring underpaid disinterested short-term staff, the contrived KPI that don’t align with assuring profit, chasing every client because it’s good for one salesman, diluting rare high-value constraints on marginal projects. I’ve worked for the majors all over the world and they’re all full of shit.
That’s what I don’t get about crunchy progs. They all claim to love small, locally sourced, etc. but they reliably supports globalist, corporatist, cronies who’s policies, whether intended or unintended, will make all that impossible. Nothing makes “locally sourced” more viable than a free market but they refuse to see that.
I could be a successful small guy just by cutting out corporate nonsense: the constant, distracting non-value-add email drama cycles; the marginally successful analysis, the cycles of hiring underpaid disinterested short-term staff, the contrived KPI that don’t align with assuring profit, chasing every client because it’s good for one salesman, diluting rare high-value constraints on marginal projects. I’ve worked for the majors all over the world and they’re all full of shit.
There’s a certain simplicity that comes with creative labor. Accomplish task X by deadline Y. There are so many non-creative layers in most modern large corporations that the simple process of achieving task X by deadline Y is lost in a deluge of reporting, workflow management, project tracking, approval hierarchy, and sundry other make work.
In my mind, I often compare my time cutting trees for my grandfather with my current legal job. Cutting trees was simple. You get on site, you gas up the chainsaw, and you stake out a section to complete by the end of the day. You spend the rest of the time felling trees and dragging them out. Compare that to my current job where 75%+ of my time is spent navigating corporate red tape, doing clerical work, and reporting my status to my managers. I use my JD only a couple hours per day.
Yep. Navigation of the corporate bureaucracy is becoming ridiculous at my company. For a low-level, minor project, I plan on 5 hours of navigating bullshit for every 1 hour of actual work. My boss can’t understand why it takes me 3 hours to draft something but then half a week to get approval from 6 different departments. One minor change from a single person, and it has to start over at the beginning.
It’s all about power and ego.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
I like the notion
but lumping invasions and building design in with solving geometry problems seems not to respect that some things are much more universal and direct than others; but FWIW bees do all three things.
The point of that was not the invasion, it was noting that a person should have the ability to conduct large scale planning that includes a myriad of contingency factors. It could have just as easily have been “Plan an industrial scale construction project”.
Overall what Heinlen was saying is that Humans should be generalists. Yes you may have your areas of specialty but you should also have some minimal level of competence in all areas or you are not fully human.
I think it was in a Robert Anson Wilson book where I first encountered that Heinlein quote. IIRC, RAW said that he would consider someone a human if they could do at least half of the things on RAH’s list.
Speaking in generalities, the closer one is to working with raw material, the more likely they are to be right-wing/free market, the more distant they are from raw materials, the more leftists/socialist they become.
I think you’re right, but I think it’s part of a broader phenomenon – right versus clever. If you work with raw materials, generally you have to be right. No amount of arguments about why the harvest should have come in just fine will change the fact that it didn’t. No amount of discussion about why there should have been a vein of ore in a given mining spot will change the fact that there wasn’t. You either called it right or you didn’t. But, the same could be said of a trader, a doctor, or an engineer. You either get your job done right, or you’re a failure. In contrast, an academic might be utterly and hopelessly wrong and still widely regarded. A lawyer can utterly botch the law and the facts, but can still win the trial if he or she is clever enough. That, to me, forms the key distinction. The guy who has to get it right sees reality as the crucible things have to get tested against. And, if you won in life, it was because your decisions better matched reality. On the other hand, for the clever, you’re just blessed with a natural gift that allows you to prosper. Getting it right might be desirable, but reality isn’t the ultimate arbiter.
This describes the cultural shift I had to go through when I changed my major from Journalism (don’t laugh) to Electrical Engineering.
I went from classes where all answers were negotiable to classes where if your answer wasn’t the exact right number that the prof wanted you got 0 points. No matter how much you tried to argue. It was a tough semester and I realized that if I was going to do well, I really needed to study and learn the material. I couldn’t rely on my old tactic of regurgitating whatever crazy idea the prof liked and get good grades.
And you probably see a lot more conservative/libertarian electrical engineers than conservative/libertarian journalists.
Especially since so much of your grade in liberal arts classes is based on you towing the lion of the prof’s pet cause.
The worse classes were the ones where the TA’s would grade the tests because you couldn’t predict which TA would grade your test and thus couldn’t ensure that you were towing the right lion.
That. In a film class, I wrote a paper with my own interpretation of the film that was not in line with the lecture.
The TA said, “He said in class up front this meant X.”
Me: “I didn’t see that.”
TA: “It was RIGHT. THERE. in the film.”
Me: “I didn’t see that. Are you going to grade me on what I saw, wrote about, and backed up, or are you going to grade me on what the professor saw?”
We ended up on a compromise grade, but neither one of us was happy. Thereafter, I made sure my papers were on the technical aspects of filmmaking. She found that actually refreshing.
I wrote many a paper in film school that contradicted the interpretations of the prof. It worked best to use their interpretation, then say “but it could also mean..”
It was only one class I needed for my major, but it didn’t actually occur to me to do that.
The truth was I barely paid attention in class, watched the films, and learned my lesson after that first paper to avoid anything interpreting, blah blah blah. I did things on costuming, script pacing, and stuff like that.
Could Pablo Escobar’s Escaped Hippos Help the Environment?
Some scientists think Colombia’s “cocaine hippos” could help fill-in for long extinct megafauna, while others argue that they should go
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/colombia-cocaine-hippos-rewilding-experiment-news/
there shall be open season on all non-indigenous creatures ……. except me
I don’t think it was the producers’ intention, but I came away from the first two seasons of Narco looking at the DEA and American pushers of the war on drugs as being the true villains of his story. Not that Escobar was a good guy, but his evil paled in comparison.
Me too.
Ha, same here.
It’s a story with no good guys.
“Cocaine Hippo” sounds like a nickname for Melissa McCarthy
I’d reserve judgement until I know what the carrying capacity of the Columbian ecosystem is. Can it support this herd of hippos? Even if they are are hungry, hungry?
You dont want to live in an ecosystem with hippos. They are territorial and very very violent.
So, much like everyone else in the cocaine trade?
In Narcos season 3, Escobar explains to the head of the Mexican cartel that that is pretty much why he likes the hippos.
Season 4
Some people tried to import hippos to Louisiana
https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus-podcast
I wonder what lake cow bacon tastes like?
I wonder why I’ve never seen anything made of hippo leather.
http://www.andrewsleather.com/exotic/hippopotamus.html
Because leather pants made from hippo leather make your ass look really, really fat?
Probably like ass, or it would be a thing already.
Just think how entertaining the House Finance Committee would be with Maxine Waters and 2+2=5 Barbie running the show.
It sounds funny until I need to mail a check in to the crooks running the fucking IRS on April 15th….
I have the Be Good Tanyas doing Townes van Zandt.
Good song for Monday morning. Also, I know the feeling.
that was good, but wasn’t Townes
Song from another Van Zandt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDibAO5TFI
Funny story. I have this song on my motorcycle playlist I listen to while I ride. One day I pull up next to a car at a light with it playing. A teen aged emo guy with blue hair rolls down his window and tries to get my attention. I turn in down and tell him. He says ” that is the coolest song I’ve ever heard in my life! who is that?” I told him, gaining just a tiny bit of respect for some of the yutes nowadays.
The similarities between progressive thought and little kid thought are enlightening.
A screeching two year old, by any other name…
At least for the two year old, its usually just an act to get what they want. I’m not convinced that the progs aren’t true believers in tantrum as successful political discourse.
Well, when my daughter loses her mind because we won’t change the big TV from football to Paw Patrol and doesn’t want to watch it on her tablet, it’s because she’s skipped a nap and is way too tired or she’s getting sick and is cranky. So maybe the cure for Progressivism is just a good nap and some chicken soup.
Uffda. Did you forget that it might just be the onset of PMS that caused her tantrum?
Several times I’ve had to stop myself from saying to my wife, “Christ, she’s so emotional! Is that how you people live like every day?”
From my experience, the anger this engenders from the female of the species sure as hell seem to validate the issue.
Mammary Monday is here to support, lift and squeeze into your day!
http://archive.is/wQhbZ
Excellent group. I’ll be in my bunk…
4 looks like a Latina Ann Hathaway.
made me look
That reminds me, I was searching for pictures of the Bonnie Blink Masonic Home in Maryland because of the castle reference up top, and on Duck Duck Go image search it also brings up pictures of Bonnie Wright, the chick who played the Weasely sister in the Harry Potter movies. If anything were to happen to my wife, God forbid, I would probably not bother with dating and just stick to sexbots. Except if Bonnie Wright’s single, in which case I’m flying to England and giving it a shot. I don’t know what it is, man, but the “English rose” look is my Achille’s heel more than anything else.
Jesus. 2 looks like a love doll.
Yup.
Didn’t see any obvious trannies, cause big natural boobs.
10, 21, 44
28 wins the “Not Pretty at All, But Crazy Good in Bed, Boil the Bunny Crazy elsewhere” warning.
My hometown is finally getting into the crony business of regulating AirBnB.
I’m actually surprised it took this long for them to get around to it. The area is a complete tourist trap and hotel/resort owners have to be pretty worried about any competition from cabin owners.
Of course, the main complaint about AirBnB is that they don’t have to comply with all the shitty regulations and inspections that hotels do. I wonder why they don’t ask to be let out of those regulations themselves?
btw: I know almost everyone mentioned in this story. Sort of sad to see old acquaintances lobbying for bull shit like this.
>>Detroit Lakes Regional Tourism Bureau
Come for the toxic waste… stay for the skin abnormalities?
More like “Come for the country music festival, stay for the meth”
My college roommate was from DL. Asshole used to piss in the sink. But he did have a sizable porn collection.
Well if they didn’t want you to piss in the sink, why did they put a drain in it?
Probably a country kid from DL, who was still in awe at the idea of indoor plumbing.
Does the sink pissing and the porn collection have a connection?
“I’m for AirBNBs,” he said — he would just like to see the city “get in front of it and regulate it, before it becomes an issue… I think you need to regulate them (short term rentals) just like we are.”
Oh, OK then.
So maybe the cure for Progressivism is just a good nap and some chicken soup.
A juice box, a binky, and a time-out- just what the little crybabies need.
A long overdue spanking or three, too.
The “Yellow Vest” protests and riots against climate change taxes on gas underscores the economic and cultural divide in the West. Your average Parisian cares little about the tax, because they typically don’t drive that often. Areas outside of major metro areas (the parts of the country that are not as wealthy as their urban counterparts) are hurt by the tax the most.
Class warfare has finally arrived in the West and the Left is on the side of the rich. Hilariously predictable.
Also, Thomas Massie has thoughts:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1069532525696073729
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1069308643038896133
Take this with a grain of salt, considering the source, but it appears that some police are in solidarity with the Yellow Vest protesters.
Ugh, don’t read the comments….
The comments can be amusing
https://twitter.com/Biyootz/status/1069573359158087683
Massie don’t fuck around.
PrinceDois
@DevelopmentUpda
I had to look up where Kentucky-4 was. No surprise that an irrelevant shithole would elect simple men like yourself to represent them.
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Simple men with degrees from MIT and multiple US patents. Nice job
I wonder if Amash will get permission to say anything about this?
Whoever “PrinceDois” is should be ashamed after getting schooled like that. But, he/she/it won’t because it wouldn’t even occur to them to consider how undeservedly pretentious it makes him/her/it appear.
KY-4 is basically Cincinnati. Just on the south side of the river.
I’ve had their local jelly. It REALLY needs more sweetener.
I wonder why they don’t ask to be let out of those regulations themselves?
Nobody goes to Somalia on vacation.
Because there are no roads to Somalia on the Tundra?
On the Tundra
“Tucker Carlson, the Daily Stormer’s Favorite,” via WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/11/29/tucker-carlson-neo-nazi-favorite/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.895a2aacf212
Smear by association until they get you fired and deplatformed is the MO now and it’s the media calling for it. What a load of horseshit.
I fail to see any qualitative difference between WaPo and Buzzfeed at this point. How anyone can see them as anything but a hyper-partizan rag is beyond me.
WaPo has always been biased in favor of the Democratic party, but it’s definitely worse post-Obama. Really, I think it started getting really bad during Obama, and now they’re just completely off the rails. The headlines still mostly resemble what you’d expect from an actual newspaper, but on cursory examination the bias shows through pretty clearly. Many a question is begged on the front page of the Washington Post above the fold.
A decade ago, I thought that WaPo was much more evenhanded than the NYT. That’s not even close to being true now, and not because the NYT is better than it was then.
What level of criticism directed toward American immigration policy is acceptable now? It seems any criticism of illegal immigration or porous borders automatically makes someone a Nazi now.
I have a generally liberal attitude toward immigration, but to label people who criticize current immigration policy as “racist” is beyond stupid.
Why aren’t opponents of school choice automatically labeled as “racist”? I think there is a far stronger argument that opposition to school choice is more motivated by racial animus than the argument that those who support skilled based immigration over family immigration policies are somehow bigots.
The most infuriating trait of Progressivism is its tendency to make everything about race. You can’t have concerns over illegal immigration because the second someone realizes that the majority of illegal immigrants are not Caucasian nothing else matters.
I seem to have noticed that a lot of people who assure me they are most definitely not progressives have employed this exact same tactic.
https://twitter.com/KatMurti/status/1060541942432436224
Well, some people like to call other people racists because they think it’s what the cool kids do. Clearly Kat is one of those people. She looks like she’s quirky and edgy just like every other goddamned hipster.
The alternative that wasn’t
C’mon, Kat, that “riot grrrl” shit was tired when Gwen Stefani did it in the 90s, and it hasn’t gotten any better. You just look like a clown. Do yourself a favor.
They have merely replaced “class” with “race” and carried on the same as always. Make “race” irrelevant and they’ll have to find some other way to divide us.
Oppression narratives don’t work when people aren’t seemingly oppressed.
They stopped caring about “class” because they woke up one day around 2012 and realized that there was barely any working class contingent left in their coalition. They needed to justify their righteousness somehow, so they adopted “race” as their new calling card. Of course, their minority contingent is no bigger than their working class contingent, but wealthy liberals get to define their own narrative with a dutiful press always willing to spread the myth.
they woke up one day around 2012 and realized that there was barely any working class contingent left in their coalition
They’ve been laying the framework since the 80s. They knew it was going to be an issue when Reagan democrats became a thing. Since then, they’ve been shifting the narrative back to race and gender.
But they at least use to feign support for workers. Even Obama circa 2008 and Bernie of very recently talked about illegal immigration undercutting wages. They were never label “bigots” for the exact same stupid argument that Carlson now makes.
Now, concerns for workers from the Left are an after thought (if it’s a thought at all). Carbon taxes is a great example of this.
Well you can change your class, but you can’t change your race, so maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe the old quote about the poor seeing themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” is the issue.
“but you can’t change your race”
Oh, I don’t know about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html
The reason why “demographics as destiny” is a losing proposition
Well, why do you think they’re pushing the transgender and sexual minority thing so hard? They’ve got to find ways to keep dividing, dividing, dividing.
The ironic thing is that white gay men are more or less in the process of being thrown under the bus because they’re too privileged compared to the darkies and the other LGBTQ+++ crowd. Several prominent white gay men have already defected and I think that will continue to pick up steam.
What must suck for the agitators is that the deplorables so quickly decided to change their mind on gay rights. They thought they were going to have a cottage industry like Al Sharpton and civil rights. Then everything is wrecked when people said “you are right. We are treating gays pretty badly. Let’s accept them for who they are.”
Now the only thing you can do on that front is sue bakers or demand that .00000001% of the population can go into certain bathrooms. And a lot of your own group don’t agree with you on those topics either.
Sorry, but the gene that makes you gay also makes you love high levels of taxation and an ever growing nanny state. There are a handful of cases where this isn’t true, but those people are more rare than the twinspirits.
“What level of criticism directed toward American immigration policy is acceptable now?”
None. Well, none unless it is criticism the marxist that hope an invasion will finally allow them to set up their totalitarian utopia here, likes/wants.
*too lazy to insert link of Hilldawg criticizing liberal European immigration laws for aidin the proliferation of right-wing views*
If Tucker Carlson is a Nazi, what the fuck is an actual Nazi? A double secret extra Nazi, Nazi?
Someone that is winning an argument with a leftist?
By that way of thinking we’re all huge fans of WaPo, The Root and Everyday Feminism.
Why don’t the dopes at the Daily Stormer use their power to destroy their enemies.
All they’d have to do is come out with press releases saying “We agree with Rachael Maddow on Issue X” and “Finally someone cares about Issue X! Jim Acosta stands up agains (((them)))”
Issue X could be any trivial crap. Just find something where you both sort of agree on something. Like that you both agree that beating kids is wrong.
I don’t think the progressives have it within them to show any nuance when it comes to stuff like this. They’d just see Daily Stormer likes Racheal Maddow and start baying for her head.
I think they’ve expressed support for Farrakahan and Corbyn in the UK (because, Jews, of course). That hasn’t led to people trying to distance themselves from these two figures.
But neither of those two had any “respectability” to begin with. You can’t shame them into anything.
I’m sure that it would be hand waved away with a “that’s different” proclamation, but it would be fun to at least see them try it.
What if they decided to go in all the way with the SPLC? Would Morris Dees have to put himself on his own list?
I fail to see any qualitative difference between WaPo and Buzzfeed at this point. How anyone can see them as anything but a hyper-partizan rag is beyond me.
I don’t spend time at Buzzfeed, but I can’t help thinking they have a more nuanced understanding of economics than the WaPo moron who thinks minimum wages should be based on polling.
*I linked it yesterday
WaPo is a joke and an embarrassment. NYT is almost as bad but WaPo beats them to the brass ring. They have become so partisan and peddle in so many conspiracy theories that it really does resemble an outfit like Buzzfeed.
The comment section is so out there that it’s pretty much become indistinguishable from DU.
Tom Arnold finally hits his comedic stride:
https://twitter.com/TomArnold/status/1069532557882978304
How is it possible that we are still talking about Roseanne and Tom Arnold in the 21st Century?
Maybe he had the same math teacher Pelosi had
I feel sad for Tom. No matter how hard he progs, the actual celebrities whose acceptance he so desperately craves will still continue to think of him as a no-talent hick.
In this case they’re correct.
Maybe he had the same math teacher Pelosi had
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1129674.shtml
In which the Canadians say “Hey, Chinese concentration camps aren’t all that bad. Maybe we should consider it.”
I need a shower now.
riley7 • 2 days ago
It seems China is bringing forth common sense in having a united country… For one can look at the U.S. and the extreme chaos even on the highest of levels… Down further children wear bullet proof back packs to school… Where did the real America go to…….
People are the greatest threat to Human Freedom and Flourishing.
Where’s the “Canadian” in this article? Can’t even find a mention using Ctrl-F. Is the author somebody I’m supposed to know?
Oh lord, I’m an idiot. I read “Global Times” as “The Globe and Mail”.
My apologies for besmirching the good people of Canada and their esteemed publication. Not surprisingly, the “Global Times” is a Chinese publication
No worries. And if it had been published by The Grope and Flail as an op-ed, I wouldn’t have been terribly surprised.
But will they learn their lesson?
https://freebeacon.com/politics/mccaskill-spectacle-of-kavanaugh-fight-hurt-reelection-chances/
Since they won the House, my guess is no. The hysterics and unfounded allegations against any threatening opposition figure will continue apace. They were also a lot more brazen with the voter fraud this time around; sending up trial balloons to see what they can get away with in 2020, so I expect things on that front to get a lot worse.
Is it bad that the vote fraud shit makes me apathetic? Come back to me when we’re ready to start hanging ballot stuffers by their toes.
As long as we don’t punish this shit I too am getting the feeling that I can’t be bothered anymore. If we are not just gonna condone/tolerate it, but do nothing when we catch it, then we might as will forget about it.
Here’s the thing. The frogs are willing to burn down Paris over a fucking gas tax, but those of us who believe in the rule of law aren’t willing to do much more than hold a token protest or two when the left is literally beta testing their election stealing methods right in front of our faces. What are they supposed to be afraid of? A few strongly worded complaints to be back-paged in the local rag while the MSM plays interference?
>but those of us who believe in the rule of law aren’t willing to do much
This was tried. Remember? It was called the tea party. The RINOs hated us, the left called us racist, Roberts clarified that the courts weren’t going to respect us, and our supposed allies stole from us.
If you want to know what the origin of the alt-right is, its this. The regular-right tried it. We had votes, money, and passion. And you know what it got us? Shit on. We got shit on. So we ceded the field of combat, and the next generations learned from our experiences.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/11/29/black-rifle-coffee-mount-20mm-minigun-on-prius-because-why-not/
Those guys are great. Their coffee is pretty good too.